Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 72, 15 December 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

» The installation of the Feilding Mayor will take place on Wednesday next. The Government Auditor was in Feilding yesterday and to-day inspecting the books of the local bodies officials. The Maori football team beat Yorkshire County by two goals and four tries to one goal and three tries. This is truly remarkable summer weather. One day this week Mr London had some snowballing on his farm, up the Makino valley. Mr T. R. Chamberlain left for a trip to Melbourne on Thursday last. He will be absent for a month or six weeks, We hope he will enjoy his holiday. The Otago Daily Times' special correspondent in Melbourne has put on record fche important facts that " Detective Benjamin wore a new suit of clothes. " Lucky Bargee ! Auckland has established an Anti-Pov-erty Bociety, and each candidate niußt pledge himself to pay his newspaper accounts, or he is rejected forthwith. Ifc is feared the society will not prove long lived. At the request of the Premier of Victoria, the New Zealand Government have consented to grant a concession in railway fares to qualified members attending the Intercolonial Medical Congress, to be held in Melbourne in January. A new advertisement from fche Colonists Land and Loan Corporation, Limited, appears over leader to-day, in which particulars are given of totara bush sections hitherto held as reserves, which are now offeree! i'Or wlo.

We enjoyed another very heavy storm on Thursday night. ' < As we go to press a cricket match, between the Marton and Feilding teams, ' is going on. i The services of the Feilding Brass Band have been secured for the Feildiug Hack ] Race meeting. i A rumour is going: the rounds that the Drake family, resident near Wellington < and Patea, have come into a fortune ] through the Court of Chancery for four and a half millions. We hesitate to name it, but such is tho rumour circum- ' stautially related. On Thursday last, when the Court was ] sitting in Napier, a large shark was seen playing about in the waves, and attracted the attention of the hangers-on of the Court. Once or twice the monster was very close in shore, and at these moments ' the lawyers were observed to sit close — in deep silence. They knew. The Manchester Rifles were inspected by Lieut.-Col. Stapp last night. Captain Pleasants was in command. There was a full muster, and the company was drilled by Lieut. Kirton. Volunteers Reid, Milson, and Collins were examined for the position of Corporal, and their appointments will be confirmed. In our advertising columns to-day Mr B. Blower (formerly of the Queen's Hotel, Wellington) announces that he has tiken over the Club Hotel, Palmerston North, and invites a share of publio ptitrona^e. Mr Blower is well and favorably known in the trade, and amongst travellers is deservedly popular. A card from Mr Alfred H. Maclean, accountant and salesman, of Palmeraton North, appears over leader to-day. Mr McLean was formerly in business in Wellington and Christchurch, and was well known as an able business man. We have little doubt his business operations will soon become extended throughout the West Coast district. A few days ago a consignor at Turakina put 87 sheep and 20 lambs into one double sheep truck. Owing to the close packing two or three of them were smothered to death before the truck reached Feilding. The Sheep Inspector, Mr Simpson, who was a passenger by the same train, has directed the police at Marton to take proceedings against the party for cruelty to animals. We publish, with to-day's issue, an " inset " from the Palmerston branch of the New Zealand Clothing Company, which will be found well worthy of general perusal. Mr W. A. McDowell, the popular manager, invites inspection of the large stock of goods suitable for the Christmas season, in clothing, hosiery, mercery, &c, enumerated in the " inset." "Visitors to Palmerston would do well to call on Mr W. A. McDowell' 8 popular branch of the Clothing Factory. The concluding lines of " A ride to Birmingham," published in fche Manawatu Times, are as follows : — " Undoubtedly Palmerston North has a good future ahead of it, the common centre of so large an area of highly fertile country verily she will be the Chicago of New Zealand." Judging from this, Palmerston has shifted up the Kimbolton Road and planted herself on the rails of Menzies' bridge, in the Manchester Block. To-day those parents or heads of families who are desirous of presenting their youngsters with suitable Christmas and New Years' gifts should read Mr Carthew's advertisment. We may state that it does not? disclose one half of the truth which can only be discovered by an actual personal visit to the shop. The visits which Santa Klaus will undoubtedly pay to the little ones on Christmas E c will not be unconnected with the services of Mr Carthew. The auction advertisements of Messrs Stevens and Gorton which appear to-day are unusually interesting. On Friday the 21st instant — instead of the 27th instant as per the firm's calender — the usual monthly stock sale will be held at Feilding after which, at the sale rooms of the firm, in Fergusson street, there will be sold the privileges of the Feilding Jockey Club Hack Race Meeting, and the land and plant of the Makino Butter and Chee.e Factory, which includes a Delavels cream separator, dutch churn, &c. Sale at the usual hour. Tlie Customs Officers now regularly vi.it the Post Office on the arrival of an English mail, to see whether any dutiable packages are sent through. This is the practice now all over the colony. A package of socks come in yesterday, and the Customs actually acquired the hand some income of '.is 6d ! When the parcels post is m operation there will be quite a Customs field- day at the Post Office on tho arrival of a mail. Yet it is all quite right. If people make their purchases i.i London, why should they not pay duty ? — Wanganui Herald. A valuable historical docnment, of which a copy is now given, is in the possession of Mr Baker, clerk to the court, Feilding. We understand it is the intention of Mr Baker to send it to the Auckland museum as a voucher of the true and instrinsic value of the body of a New Zealand slave taken in war, who was intended to be killed and eaten on fche day he was rescued by purchase by Mr Baker's father "in the good old times." " This is to certify thafc I, Te Potai, do give up and renounce for ever all claims to Tahi my slave, to Mr Charles Baker in consideration in the payment duly delivered, in kind as undernamed, being two blankets. In witness whereof I have hereby affixed my mark, this 17th day of December, 1881, Te Potai (bis mark), witness — Thomas Chapman (Church Mission), John Hobbs (Wesleyan Mission)." After you get angry and stop your paper, jusfc poke four finger in water, and pull it out, and look for the hole. Then you will know how sadly you are missed. A man who thinks a paper cannot thrive without his support ought to go off and stay awhile. When he comes back half his friends will not know that he has gone, and the other half will not care a cent, while the world at large keep no account of his movement. You will find things that you cannot endorse in every paper. Even the Bible is rather plain and hits some hard licks. If you were to get mad and burn your Bible, the hundreds of presses would still go on printing it, and Avhen you stop your paper and call the editor names, the paper will ' still be published, and, what is more, you will read it on the sly. — Keowee Courier. A new remedy against landslips on railway embankments appears to have proved j very successful. Within the last two or i three years eminent French engineers have undertaken the sowing of railroad j embankments with poppy-seede, as when i once established, that prolific plant covers the soil with a network of roots that pre- i vent it from washing away during heavy i rams, or from upheaval (when frost is coming out of the grouud) in spring. It J would be worth while for our New Zea- < land railway authorities to try this simple 1 experiment on those embankments and cutting's which are liable to landslips 1 These mishaps are always inconvenient, i usually expensive, and often dangerous. 1 If they could be provented or at least rendered less common by so easy and < cheap an expedient, it assuredly ought to 1 be adopted. i

There will be a Police Court sitting here i an Thursday next. ' Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day : — Telegrams to expect frost or a very cold ' night have been sent to all places. Cobbe and Darragh are prepared to purchase prime fresh Butter at market rates, and pay Cash for same. News is to hand that Professor Brown, t of the Otago University, is lost in tho ' mountains n jar Lake Manapouri. The yacht Coquette waa wrecked at Pah Bay, Christchurch, yesterday afternoon, and three lives were lost. A number of the unemployed, at Auck- j land, have refused to work at fche road making and stone breaking offered them. ] Owing to pressure of telegraphic matter ' we aye compelled to hold over our report ; of the Kiwitea Road Board, and other : matter. According to the WeUington Times, the "Wellington Woollen Company will declare an interim dividend of 8 per cent for the past half year. ! A heavy shower of hail at 9 o'clock yes- , terday morning whitened fche streets of Auckland and suburbs. The weather was piercingly cold, but is now fine. We have to thank Mr Carthew for a copy of the Wellington Almanac for 1889. It is the largest and best ever published in the North Inland. The export of wool from Feilding this year will be double that of any previous season. What with wool, sheep, cattle, butter, flax, and other produce to carry, the railways ought to be reaping a golden harvest from the Manchester Block and Kiwitea settlements. Mr Keen's new advertisements reached us too late for publication to-day. It will appear in our next issue, but if any of our readers are curious on the subject they can go to the shop where they will hear all about it. They will be well repaid for their trouble. The present is the sensational season. We have been informed thafc by the death of a relative in America, one family in Auckland, and two families in Feilding, will share in a bequest amounting to £7,000,000. We hazarded the word " dollars," but our informant (one of the parties) emphatically re-affirmed the amount to be as stated as above.